February 2011
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Bubbly Icecream
My brother and I used to love to stir and stir our ice cream until it was smooth like soft serve. One day we got tired of stirring and thought the microwave would do a better job. So we stuck a few heaping scoops in the microwave and waited for it to bubble. Then we would enjoy our warm ice cream soup! Mint chip was the best. Eeew.
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Syrup Grahams
This is super gross. I really really loved graham cracker crumbs as a kid. I used to pour that stuff in a bowl, pour maple syrup all over it, mix it all together, make balls out of the concoction, smush the balls flat with a fork, put them in a tupperware container, and chill them until they became solid pancakes of terrible.
The worst part is how much time and effort I had to put into making...
Chocolate Conversations
In honor of Valentine’s Day, how about this one? I used to melt chocolate in a coffee mug and then toss conversation hearts into the mug. Then I would eat the sugar-infested mess with a spoon. Apparently some people like to eat them so that they can read the words on the hearts, but that just seems weird to me.
Cranberry Straws
I used to beg my mom to buy cans of jellied cranberry sauce. Since it was only available around Thanksgiving, I requested 10 to 12 cans per year to keep me going.
Then I would take a plastic straw, open the can, and dig the straw into the cranberry sauce, so that I ended up wiht a straw full of worm-shaped cranberry sauce. Then I would do my best to suck out the cranberry sauce in one piece.
I...
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You ate what?
when my son was young he was a picky eater. If anyone made a face or derogatory comment of any kind about a certain “if-y” food, such as peas, he would refuse to even try them. One day while in the care of his grandmother he was being a typical 5 year old without a nap; whiny, irritable, and cranky. At lunch she asked what he wanted and he told her. To keep peace she made it for him....
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The Grandma BB Special
Growing up, I learned to love tuna salad, uncontroversially consisting of tuna, mayo and relish. I typically ate it in a sandwich.
One time when I was about 10, I was staying at my grandparents’ cabin in northern MN, and my grandmother was making me lunch. I requested a tuna sandwich, and she added some carrot sticks and peanut butter to my plate. For some reason there was a slice of...
Ham and Egg
When I was a kid I used to, for breakfast, fry and egg and put it between two thick slices of ham. If the egg was too slick with oil, I would stick it to the ham slices with grape jelly. It tasted like heaven.
I loved Spagettios. More than I should have. I wanted to eat them all the time, but I also wanted to have my own cooking show, so I would sometimes set up a bunch of ingredients and make my own variation of Spagettios while narrating and telling funny little anecdotes. Usually I would just add cans of corn, shredded cheese, and cans of peas to the Spagettios, but I would always tell an awesome...
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Hershey's Peanut Butter drink
As a latch-key kid I had time to make all sorts of stuff. one of my favorites was taking a Hershey’s chocolate bar and putting it in one of those tacky Tupper-Ware tall cups that came in weird off colors like fuchsia and teal, add a big spoonful of Peanut-Butter and stick it in the micro-wave until it was liquid. Then I would drink it all! I ruined all of those stupid plastic cups one by...
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Chicken cookies
When I was about 3 years old I would eat those frozen Chicken patties. For the longest time I thought they looked like sugar cookies. They were more addictive than weed laced crack LOL. So gross
